Alexandra Kleeman

“Why can't you just let people have their own inner lives, as long as they're doing pretty much what they're supposed to…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“I just don’t know, I said to everything.”

— Alexandra Kleeman

“B and I were both petite, pale, and prone to sunburn. We had dark hair, pointy chins, and skinny wrists; we wore…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“B used to have Disney princess hair, hair with a life and directionality of its own, separate from the movements of its…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“It was C who made sure that we saw each other no more than three days a week, the length of a…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“We can live in a house with a roof and a kitchen, surrounded by neighborhood. We'll both get jobs. We'll never talk…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“A woman’s body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother’s, a detachable extension of her own,…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“It all smelled like beauty products, that anonymous female scent that we rub onto ourselves to blend into a wet, aggregate femininity,…

— Alexandra Kleeman